The national coalition of road safety organizations on Friday demanded extraordinary measure ahead of dissolution of Lok Sabha, and the impending lapse of the Motor Vehicle Amendment Bill pending in Parliament since 2017.

As a part of the ongoing Road Safety Week initiative, SIAM in association with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India (MoRTH) and Delhi Traffic Police organized a seminar on ‘Emerging trends in Safety on Roads.'

A coalition of road safety organisations on Friday called upon the Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari to take urgent steps to ensure the listing and passage of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill, 2017 in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.

Road safety experts said with such accidents being reported more frequently, it was high time the government made emergency tool kit containing seat belt cutters and window glass breakers in cars mandatory on the lines of some European nations.

The Road Safety & Juniors Initiative will last for one year across the Gurugram and Faridabad region, through a two-month long training programme for the teachers as well as for the students of each of the 200 schools.

To reduce fatalities and accidents on Indian roads, Lauchlan McIntosh, Chairman of Global NCAP thinks that it is crucial to bring improvements in design and equipment quality of the vehicles. In conversation with ETAuto he said that Indian cars safety standards have improved impressively in the last few years with the inclusion of technologies. He pointed out that Global NCAP is talking to policymakers here to establish an Indian NCAP to enhance the safety standards in indigenuously manufactured cars.

The survey done by IIT-Delhi, DIMTS and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as a part of an audit conducted for the apex court panel covered 32 cities in eight states — Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Kerala, Haryana and Punjab.

GNCAP, a UK-based charity that conducts crash safety tests on cars across the world, is hosting its first ever 'Global NCAP World Congress' in New Delhi, India in partnership with Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE).

Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.